Re: [ORE] Godlike: Talent Detection

Stealth can keep you and your power use hidden. You must be able to see the other Talent to sense the power being used.

If you (a Talent) see another Talent who is using a power, then you recognize that's a Talent using a power. 

If he sees you seeing him, he'll recognize you're a Talent using a power (the power of sensing powers).

If you DON'T see him, even if he's using a power, you can't notice that he's using a power. 

If you see him using a Talent power but he can't see you, he can't know you're out being a Talent.

If you're part of a larger movement of men and materiel, being careful to not use your Talent powers may be important because there's no telling who's looking and when.

On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Gil Trevizo <gtrevizo@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm reading through Black Devils Brigade in preparation to start running it next month, and a couple of times in the text it's brought up that Talents are either told to turn off their powers or blamed for doing so when a unit is detected. This suggests that a Talent can automatically be spotted by another Talent just by being in line-of-sight.*

Now I understand from the text that "In game terms, no roll is required to spot another Talent whose power is active, it just happens." (Godlike 98) But I always took that to mean that no roll is required for a Talent to spot that someone is a Talent, they simply know that information. They still have to spot them first, which means, if the other Talent is being sneaky, they still have to make a contested roll between a Sense skill and the other's Stealth before they can see the aura or get the buzzing sound or whatever manner of tell they have for detecting another Talent.

So, is it "spot them first, which might require a roll, and then know they are a Talent" or "if in line-of-sight, Talents are obvious to you, lit up like a Xmas tree no matter how well they are hiding themselves." The former makes the most sense to me, and would be the more interesting way to play the game (otherwise there's not much point to being Stealth-y commandos because you cannot sneak up on other Talents, the guys you are trained to fight), but, based on the way it is written, I could see it being the latter.

*And even if Talents can still sneak against other Talents, I can still see them being told not to activate their powers, both so as not to alert enemy troops that there are Talents in the vicinity (which could initiate a stronger response) or because mundane commanders simply don't understand how Talent powers work.

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